On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:31:59PM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: > On Wednesday 11 April 2001 15:46, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > when you remove macos you should totally clear the partition table to > > eliminate all that macos crap. > > Ok, here's what I've done: > > I rebooted from the binary-1 CD and got into fdisk. I deleted everything I > could delete, so basicly just the partitions I had created during earlier > tries to install Linux. I wasn't able to delete the driver partitions or the > map itself.
it never ceases to amaze me how people make things hard on themselves by ignoring perfectly good documentation http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.txt or if your tired of waiting on my isp's slowaris server http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.shtml this explains how you get rid of all that driver shit. > Then I created the bootstrap partition like the various docs told me to do, a > root and swap partition followed. I finally figured out the difference > between type, name and system - seems strange but it makes some sense now... yes the above doc explains that. > I had about 2 gigs of free space left so I created two HFS partitions, one > nearly 2 gigs, the other one around 100 megs. So, now it looks like this: > > 1 map > 2-7 drivers > 8 patches (whatever that is) > 9 bootstrap > 10 root > 11 swap > 12/13 hfs > > I happily installed the base system. Now that I understood how to get the > partition stuff right, I also understood the install docs and did the > mkofboot thing successfully and my Linux finally booted off the hard disk. > > After having installed other standard packages, I had a look at the hfsutils > and figured that I could use those to format the two hfs partitions. But > although I labeled them and read the man pages again and again, the MacOS > installation system that I booted off the CD doesn't recognize them as > volumes (the hfsutils do though). If I start the MacOS hard drive utility > that does the "initialization" it lists the CD drive and the ATA hard drive, > saying that the hard drive is "unrecognized" or "uninitialized" or something > (dunno what the original word was - my MacOS is German). The problem is: I > don't dare press that "Initialize" button because I once did that and it > wiped the complete hard drive. > How can I get MacOS on this volume? why do you want MacOS? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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